Becoming Sons of God 3

1 John 3 (NET) Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.

It was easy for Dara to believe today’s Bible verse because of his personal experience. He observed that the more he beheld the Lord through His Word, the more he was transformed to be like Him in his inner man. There were certain vices and weights he just realized he no longer had an appetite for because of this.

Many believers struggle with sins and are unstable because they do not behold the Lord (see Psalm 16:8). As you behold the Lord you become more holy because He is Holy; you become more powerful, more loving, more merciful, more kind, more patient, more humble, wiser, more dependable, and more truthful. These are all attributes of the Lord and you will become more of these things by continually beholding Him in your heart.

One of the easiest ways we behold the Lord is through His Word and Prayer. As you behold Him, you become more like Him in your heart. This is how we appropriate our sonship.

What is going to happen during the resurrection is that we will have the ability to behold the Lord as He is bodily, and as a result of this, fully become like Him. This will be a total spiritual and bodily transformation. Right now, we have the opportunity to behold Him with our Spirits and with our minds, and that is why we are to be transformed to become like Him in our hearts. But during the resurrection, we would behold Him fully and no longer in part (1 Corinthians 13:12), and thus fully become like Him [physically] too.

Go into today knowing that you can be spiritually powerful with the sonship power of Christ because right now you can behold Him in your heart through His word, prayer, and Christian fellowship.

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